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We stock a range of antiquarian music, books on music, manuscripts and autographs, with an emphasis on early printed editions and manuscript scores of important composers.
Recent catalogues have included one of a very few surviving lifetime manuscripts of Scarlatti's harpsichord sonatas; a remarkable collection of vocal and instrumental music from the library of the duchesse de Berry; and inscribed first editions of works by Berg, Janacek, Poulenc, Rimsky-Korsakov, Schumann, Shostakovich, Stravinsky and Vaughan Williams.-
ZARLINO, Gioseffo.
Le Istitutioni harmoniche … nelle quali;...
Venice, [Pietro da Fino], 1558.
First edition, rare, of ‘arguably the...
£15000
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SCHUBERT, Franz, composer.
A fine contemporary volume of ten works...
Vienna, 1821-1833.
A rare collection of Schubert Lieder...
£7500
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[GOETHE.]
REICHARDT, Johann Friedrich. Goethe’s...
Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel, [1809–11].
Very rare first complete edition of Reichardt’s...
£6500
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[VOGEL, Johann Christoph.]
Démophon.
[France (probably Paris), c. 1787.]
A contemporary scribal manuscript of Johann...
£5250
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VERHEYEN, Pierre Emmanuel.
Requiem mass in C minor.
[Flanders, c. 1810.]
A very grand unpublished Requiem mass in...
£4750
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[SCHOLZE, Johann Sigismund.]
Sperontes singende Muse an der Pleisse...
Leipzig, auf kosten der lüstigen Gesellschaft...
Second edition of the first part, first...
£4500
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COLLIN DE BLAMONT, François.
Les festes grecques et romaines, ballet...
Paris, Jean-Baptiste-Christophe Ballard, 1723.
First edition of the first ‘Ballet-héroïque’,...
£3500
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[ANTIPHONAL.]
Antiphonal, with neumes, containing music...
Southern Germany or Bohemia, mid-fifteenth...
An unusual and striking antiphonal leaf...
£3500
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[PLAYING CARDS.]
Cartes Magiques Musicales. 1001 Danses...
Paris, Bass, c. 1830.
The complete Piquet deck of these rare...
£3000
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[ADOLPHUS, Prince, later Duke of Cambridge.]
Manuscript collection of fifty-four songs...
[Hanover?, 1796.]
The seventh son of George III and Queen...
£2850
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RIDOLFI, Luca Antonio.
Aretefila, dialogo, nel quale da una parte...
Lyons, Guillaume Rouillé, 1562.
The third edition (first 1557) of a remarkable...
£2800
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ARISTIDES, Aelius.
Orationum tomi tres, nunc primum latine...
Basel, Peter Perna and Heinrich Petrus, 1566.
First edition in Latin, a remarkable copy...
£2750
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MILHAUD, Darius.
Le boeuf sur le toit, ou The nothing doing...
Paris, Editions de la Sirène, 1920.
First edition of Milhaud’s Le boeuf sur...
£2400
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[CHANSONS.]
Manuscript collection of arias, chansons,...
[France (Nantes?), c. 1795.]
A fascinating manuscript collection of...
£2400
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CAVALCANTI, Bartolomeo.
La retorica … divisa in sette libri,...
Venice, Gabriel Giolitto, 1559.
Second edition, published in the same year...
£2250
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D’URFEY, Thomas.
Wit and Mirth: or Pills to purge Melancholy;...
Pearson for J. Tonson, 1719 [– 1720].
The first complete edition, second issue...
£2250
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GOUNOD, Charles François.
A volume of ten songs bound together, all...
London, 1870–3.
Ten of Gounod’s London-published songs,...
£2000
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PLAYFORD, John.
Psalms & Hymns in solemn Musick of foure...
London, Printed by W. Godbid for J. Playford,...
First edition of the first harmonised Psalter...
£1850
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CLARI, Giovanni Carlo Maria.
Manuscript score of a collection of six...
Italy, mid-eighteenth century.
A collection of secular madrigals for two...
£1800
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ESSER, [Karl?] Michael, Ritter von.
Sei Quartetti per due violini viola, e...
[Venice, Marescalchi e Canobbio, 1774?]
First edition, very rare, of a complete...
£1750